The Stuffed Animal Rescue Foundation

The Stuffed Animal Rescue Foundation: Our Mission

The Stuffed Animal Rescue Foundation (S.A.R.F.) is an organization dedicated to the well-being of abandoned, outgrown or neglected Stuffed Animals.* We find permanent and/or foster homes for rescued Stuffed Animals (SAs), and we provide shelter, snuggles and good conversation in the interim. We are committed to the physical and mental rehabilitation of stuffed victims of abandonment, and we raise awareness of these problems through our Stuffed Animal Petting Zoo events. We are located in Austin, TX.

Rescue Objectives

To love SAs whose owners can no longer keep them (due to callousness, ‘growing up’ or apartment redecoration)

To rehabilitate SAs before placement by providing sanitization, psychotherapy, hug therapy and all needed innoculations

To place SAs in suitable homes with loving owners**

To evoke guilty feelings in those who have abandoned childhood SAs and to educate the public regarding SAs’ feelings

To thoroughly screen adoption applicants before making placement decisions

*The S.A.R.F. does not discriminate against ‘non-animal’ species (eg. snowmen, stuffed fruits or vegetables, strikingly cute pillows) as long as they are plush and are sufficiently adorable to be considered viable candidates for adoption.

**The S.A.R.F. reserves the right to keep any SAs to which we become attached during the rehabilitation process.

Our Mission

THE SARF.ORG

Barkley

Gender

Male

We are doing our best to transcribe Barkley’s bio as he dictates it to us, but he can be quite difficult to understand. Barkley suffers from a condition called Pica. It is a fascinating eating disorder that is extremely rare in humans, and is even more so in SAs, particularly since eating anything at all is a rare activity for an SA. Pica manifests itself in SAs in much the same ways as it does in humans, and Barkley’s case is rather unremarkable as far as SA Pica is concerned. He exhibits classic systems, showing a preference for eating trophies that celebrate soccer achievements, plastic sunglasses (with a slight selection for those blue in nature), and paintbrushes containing acrylic paint residue.
Barkley says he is originally from Des Moines and that he is one of six siblings, none of whom show signs of eating disorders. His older sister, however, does have an unusually large collection of Kremlin-themed snow globes, but this does not appear to cause her any sort of measurable distress and thus is not classified in the DSMSA-IV.